Do you know your Potter? | Pastor Gloria Paul

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We hope this message will light up your day.

Okay. So today's word, right, it's a it's a message

taken from the Book of Jeremiah. Right, and I pray

that this message will just bring such an assurance of

who God is in our lives and how God created

us to be right. So let's just even start reading

the word of God. Okay, if you have your Bible,

could you turn with us to the Book of Jeremiah

chapter eighteen.

Okay.

Jeremiah chapter eighteen was one, right, are you all there? Yes? No, okay,

Jeremiah chapter eighteen was one okay, So allow me to

read and you can just even follow through. Right. So

it says year from verse one, the word which came

to Jeremy from the Lord, saying, arise and go down

to the potter's house, and there I will cause you

to hear my words. Then I went down to the

potter's house, and there he was making something at the wheel.

And the vessel that he made of day was marred

in the hand of the potter. So he made it

again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the

potter to make then the word of the Lord came

to me, saying, oh, house of Israel, can I not

do with you? As this potter says the Lord, look

as the clays in the potter's hand, so are you

in my hand? Or house of Israel? Amen? Right, So

this scripture here talks about of course, just to give

you a bit of context about Jeremiah, right, Jeremiah was

a prophet and for our youth here, Okay, Jeremiah was

a youth as well, Okay, when he could listen to

God's voice, you know, when he could actually you know,

communicate with him. God is able to speak to anyone.

You're never too young, a right, you're you only it's

not only about the older ones that can hear the

voice of God, anyone as long as you have a

relationship with him. Right. So that was Jeremiah. Okay. But

in fact, if you if you study it, but Jeremiah,

you'll know that he was known as a failure. Okay.

He was not a very popular person. He was very isolated, okay,

or in our contexts, a very introverted person likes to

be by himself. He was persecuted in his own way, right,

And so he was known as a weeping prophet, all right.

So that is why when you read some of the portions,

you will see that he is coming from a lot

of emotions, a lot of struggle. Yeah, so that was

the life that he was living. But as we read

the Book of Jeremiah, you realize that, yeah, we have

a Jeremiah year as well. Okay, all right, As you

read the Book of Jeremiah, you realize that this prophecies

a lot about repenting from your sin and how God

resource okay, and in fact, he also shares a lot

about the consequences of our sins and how important it

is to lead a change life. Okay. So he hears

from God and he prophesies it. Right, That is Jeremiah

for you. And so I just wanted to encourage all

of us that God is able to use anyone. Okay.

He doesn't just use the ones that are all ready

and you know as in you know they have it

all together. Yeah, but even uses the ones who are

known as unpopular, failure or the young ones.

Right.

But God still uses anyone. Yeah. So let's just see

what the word of God tells us about, you know,

him being the potter and we being the Clay. Right,

So as we read the scripture just now, you know,

he sees a whole scenario of how Clay is made

into something right, from a month, made into something him.

So something for us to think about this morning is

that do we truly know who is in control of

our lives? Right? Do we truly know who is the

potter of our lives? Okay? Because if we know the truth,

we will live our lives that way. Okay. Just like

how if you are, you know, living in a house

and you know your parents are there, you have people

around you, You're very much secured, right, Okay, I have

people around me, right, That security is there, the assurance

is there. Right. And the same thing is if we

know that our God is in control of our lives,

that he is the creator of us, that our identity

is in him, we live our lives very differently as well. Okay,

The decisions we make goes back to him. Everything revolves

around him because we know that, hey, God is a

very important person in our lives. Yeah, So are we

able to recognize that he is our potter? Okay? And

are we or are we actually giving room for other

potters in our lives? Okay? Sometimes yes, we are molded.

We know that God is there, we've been a believer

for some time, but we may also give room to

other potters to do something on our part, right to

create different designs, to carve us in a certain way,

and therefore we get out track. Yeah. So I think

it's very important for us to pay attention to who

is this potter and do we actually allow him to

be the number one in our lives? Yeah. I'm going

to share with you a couple of pointers this morning,

and I hope that it could also be an reflection

for all of us today. Yeah. In Romans chapter nine,

verse twenty one, it also says has the potter no

right over the clay to make out the same lum

one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? Yeah,

so has the potter no right? If God has created us,

I'm sure he has the right to do what he

wants to do. Right, And until we realize that right,

we'll always be wrestling with this thought, God, why is

it things are not going my way? I want it

this way, but it's the other way. But well, God

knows that you need this instead, not this, not that right,

So we'll keep wrestling with our own ones and not

what God wants. Also, you know, so I think it's

very important for us to come to that place of

sinking in with God and say, yes, Lord, I am

your cleay, do as you want. Yeah, living a life

of surrender. I think that's very important. Okay, Now the

first point I like us to just understand when we

speak about potter and about being vessels. Yeah, the first

thing that water would do as he you know, create,

I mean, prepares a pot right is choosing the clay right,

choosing the clay depending to what they were they were

about to do. Okay, And choosing the right clay is

a very important decision because it's the very first step.

And if you don't get that right, if the mud

is of a wrong texture, too much water less mud,

then it might not turn out the way it should write,

or it may the mud may not be ready to

be molded. Yeah, so choosing the right clay is very important.

There are many different clays and different types to be chosen,

but a potter would know what suits best. If it's

going to do a very big pot that is going

to hold onto a lot of water, it has to

be strong. It has to be firm, right, and so

the choice would be different. Yeah, Or if it's going

to do a very small pot that it's going to

hold a flour, then again it has to be sturdy enough. Yeah,

So every function of the pot would have a different

clay that is used here, and so clay made of mud.

We are from dust. Yet God chose each one of us.

You know, as you read the book of Genesis, that

is how we were created dust, and that is how

we would actually go one day. Right, But yet God

chose us Salm hundred and three, verse thirteen. As a

father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows

compassion to those who fear him, for he knows our frame.

He remembers that we are dust. Right, we are dust.

He remembers us from the time we were created until today.

Ask his classes that the tree was twenty. It says,

all go to one place. All are from the dust,

and to dust. All written, God chose us. And I

think when we can understand this truth, it brings a

lot of humility in our hearts. I mean, for me,

it is when I read this scripture right, that we

all go back to one place. That is how we

were and that's how we're going to end up. Because

we spend so much of time and effort on our

physical you know, the earth that we are living in,

the things that we do. We're nothing wrong with that,

of course, But do we also spend time on our

spiritual walk with God? Because as believers, we know that

we were created for eternity. That is what we're going

to do for a longer time if you think about it. Okay,

we're living in this earth telle hundred years or ninety years,

depending what God has for us, right, and then after

that is what Okay, life just doesn't end there. But

we are created to continue worshiping God. Okay, the second

coming of God when he comes, when Jesus comes, we

are all going to be worshiping him all our life.

So shouldn't we be spending more time investing on our

spiritual instead of just our physical? Right? I think it's

important for us to wake up and remember that because

the world can have a lot of our attention, the

world can have a lot of things to be done,

But what about the spiritual? Because this is what stays

when someone goes back to God. What stays is their soul,

What stays is their life, you know, with God. And

then I wonder why we don't spend enough time to

invest on that. Right and the word of God here

tells us that God chose you. In John fifteen sixteen,

you didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you

to go and produce lasting fruit so that the Father

will give you whatever you ask for using my name.

How nice it is to know that God choses. Right.

If someone calls you, let us go out for a meal,

or I'm inviting you for a meal to my house.

You know, you feel, you feel welcomed, right, you feel

that you are chosen. It's a blessing. What more, our

heavenly Father says that I chose you, right, I chose you,

meaning you are that precious in the eyes of God. Amen. Right,

come on, said, let's respond. I know there's a small

group of us. Okay, let's get excited. It's the house

of God. You're not responding to me, You're responding to him. Okay,

So it will be nice to just hear some amens

as you hear God's word. Right, So that is who

God is. Yeah, he shows us now Ephicients chapter two,

verse ten, It says, for we are God's masterpiece. He

has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can

do the good things He planned for us long ago.

It says that He has planned for us long ago,

meaning where we are now, He has already planned it

for us and even for the days to come. So

even for the things that you're waiting for, right, your

dreams to be achieved, the jobs that you're waiting for,

your family, whatever your pray, God has already planned it.

And we know that when God plans something, he has

only the best for us. So we can be rest asshword,

we can be in peace, yeah, knowing that God has

already planned and we can just journey and have that

faith as we walk with him. Yeah, and we are

god master piece meaning if you say masterpiece, meaning it's

so precious, you know, so precious. There can be so

many people in the world. But why did God choose you? Right?

What did God put you in this very place? There

must be a reason, Yeah, there must be a reason.

The moment someone loses their purpose is when we lose it,

we lose the meaning of life. If you think about it, right,

and you when you just feel like giving us, you

feel like what's the point that's when we forget who

we are. But the moment you can remember my purpose.

You can remember that I am special because God created me.

It changes to our perspective and the way we live

our lives. We take things seriously, we don't take things

for granted. Right, And that is what God's word tells us.

He choose us, He is our we are his masterpiece.

So do you know your identity as a child of God,

chosen by him? Because that reflects the way you see

yourself and even others, right, even others, even the most

worse person. I mean, you're no one to judge, right,

God loves them. God loves everyone. Okay, we are all

his children in the eyes of God. Amen. Right. So

that's the first thing. God chose us. You have to

first remember that, no matter how old a Christians we

could be, sometimes we tend to forget that and we

take things on our whole own strength. You know, well,

I can choose my path. Well, God gives you free choices,

of course, but you must always get back to basic

and remember that God chose us a man. Now. The

second one is that when you're working with the clay,

the waging of the clay is very important. Yeah, working

on it, trying to just you know, like how you're

baking as well. You know, if you want to do

chapati or you want to bake bread or whatever it is,

you've got to work with the doors, right. Only if

you work with it well, if you mix it well,

something can come out of it. And the same thing

is with us as well. Our potter is waging the clay.

Do you think it's it feels nice to be waged? Well,

if it so it feels like a massage, then maybe

it's different. Okay, But sometimes that waging can feel differently. Okay,

it's the knocking here and the knocking there, right, or

the removing a little bit of it and then adding

something else right. But the waging is the one that

improves how the clay can turn out to be how

it should be. Okay, there can be consistency, that can

be moisture, and then it's formed into that beautiful pot.

But the thing is, sometimes we only see the end product,

you know. We see the beautiful bars, we see the

beautiful port and we're like, hey, oh come, you got

it all together. Well, but God saw that journey you

had to go through. Right, there were a time when

it was a challenge, and then God molded you to

be that person. Right, but the waging may not always

be the easier Isaiah sixty four eight. It says, And yet,

oh Lord, you are my father, We are the clay,

you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand,

coming to a place of acknowledging that we go through challenges, disappointments,

times of sorrow, jaw why all of those things are

just to make us stronger. Right, for those of you

were here last Sunday, we've heard past the Alvin's testimony

that he shed with his mom. Right, it was a

very difficult journey, but yet he came out stronger through that. Right,

count it all joy. I'm sure there's the reason why

God keeps telling that in the Bible, because he knows

that the world brings us troubles, the world brings us sorrow,

but count it all joy, because He has overcame the world,

and he wants us to not just fix our eyes

on that sorrow and the world, but he wants us

to also remember there's another world that's coming, the second

coming that we're looking forward to the eternity. So that's

the reason why we can say that, hey, these things

will never last. There will no there will be no

more sorrow one day, right, There'll be no more trouble

when Jesus comes. But of course for us, you've just

got to endure the waging for a while. You've got

to endure the dooring, you know, the mixing of the

door for a while, and it won't hurt if you

hold on to him a man right. So my encouragement

for all of us this morning is that if you're

in the midst of that waging, you're like waiting God,

when's this going to happen? You know, it feels so painful,

it feels like it's ticking forever. Can I encourage you

to just hold on to him? Hold on to the Potter.

The Potter knows what he's doing if he's waging you

for a little while more, meaning he has a purpose, right,

He wants to make you into an even more beautiful

vessel so that you can do all that he is

calling you to do. Yeah, So never give up, never

lose hope, keep trusting in God. Right, and your testimony

would come a man right. It's all about just enjoying

the journey. That God has called you to be at

right and he gives you a new outlook. You know,

when you step out of a situation, you realize, Hey,

God has been there with me all these years. He's

never let me alone, right, and I can trust in him. Amen. Now,

the third point that we can learn as a potter

and a clay would be choosing the pottering technique. Now

the moment you have reached the clay right and you've

done the door of the mud and you have it

as a lump, what the portter needs to decide on

is what is the porttering clay a technique that I

need to use? Because there are so many different techniques

and different tools that a potter would use. And you

know what's interesting, when they put the mud on the wheel,

the first thing that they will start working on is

what's in the middle. What's in the middle of the vessel,

which I would say it's the heart of the vessel, right,

And the same thing is with us. God is working

in our hearts. First, the outside may look like it's fine,

but God is not just interested with the outwit. He's

interested with our inward right. And so when you can

make the hole with the wage when it's on the

wheel and have it going, that's when it becomes a

vessel right forming of the heart. In Psalm one hundred

and thirty nine, verse twenty three, it says, search me,

oh God, and know my heart. Test me and know

my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you,

and lead me along the path of everlasting life. How

many of us have said this prayer recently? Yeah, if

you have not, then I encourage you to do that.

God searched my heart. Because sometimes we may not know

what's going on in our hearts because there's just a

lot of things going on right, or we could be

doing things or spending a lot of time into things

that may not be even pleasing Him. But when you

say this prayer, God will say, Wow, this daughter or

this son of mine is open to allow me to

work in him or her. Because God is always waiting

to work in us. But whether are we positioning ourselves

to be worked on right or are we just so

occupied from one thing to another? Right, it's just how

life demands comes in. But if you can just pays

out and say God, I'm just sitting here in your

presence and say God, search my heart. You know, are

there unforgiveness that I need to work on? Are there

things that I'm taking on my own strength and I'm

not trusting you enough? Or is my time given for

things that I can at least give to you. Spending

time with you show me a lot? And you know

what he shows you. Yeah, it's all about asking him

and he reveals it to us. Yeah, so bring it

unto God. In James four ten, it says, humble yourselves

before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.

And for you to come to a place of saying, God,

search my heart, reveal to me what not pleases you,

or to even just say God, this is what I'm

dealing with that it takes a lot of humility do

anything so right because you're saying, Okay, it's not about me.

It's about God. You know, it's not about just my desires,

but it's about God. And that's why I feel sometimes

not everyone can say this prayer immediately. It takes a

relationship because you know who God is. Then you can

say that God, yes, come, I am ready to give

away things that I may be loving, I may be

enjoying it, but I want to give it away so

that I can honor you. How many of us are

willing to say that? Okay? And you and you'll only

take a relationship to actually say that. Yeah. And as

we read the Book of James, it's about humbling yourselves.

And when you humble yourself before God, he lifts you up.

He lives you up in his way. And you wouldn't

realize that he's lifting you up because you're just journeying

with him in faith, right, journing in him with faith.

So God works from the inside out, whereas religion works

from the outside out. Okay, because we like to do

things on the show. You know the way we pray,

and that's why the Jesus says and in the Gospels,

how you know the group of people, the Pharisees. You

know they pray openly in the front. They wash their

hands so much. You know, they think that it's being clean,

that is being pure. But Jesus says, right, it's what's

in your heart. Even if you're a fast thing. Even

if you're praying, you don't go and tell people you're

doing it for the show or you're helping someone. You

shouldn't let your left hand know, right, it's about you

and God. It's about your who are you honoring at

the end of the day. And the same thing goes

with serving as well. Sometimes we can serve in and

out by who are we doing it unto even if

someone doesn't tell you thank you, I'm okay, well, because

I'm doing it for God. Yeah. So it is about

being able to come to a place of softness. And

if you realize point two was waging, that whole waging

process is to softness. Only once we are softened, he

can make that hole in that vessel. Right, But until

the waging doesn't happen, it has not cause different things

around us to come to a place like God, okay,

I surrender. Then we wouldn't even say this prayer and

say God search my heart because I'm still so hot

as a mud. Right, I've not gone through that process. Yeah.

So that's why I'm telling you that if you're going

through that process, endure that process, because He's making you,

is choosing that technique, that's molding your heart for something bigger,

something greater. Yeah. So that is what God does. He

works from the inside out. Have we had our heart

check recently? Yeah? Not talking just about going to the doctor,

but a heart check with our relationship with God, because

He knows it all right, He has it all in control.

And even when I look back with my journey being

in ministry and serving God, it is a journey. I've

seen the ups, I've seen the downs. There were times

I just wanted to give up and say it's too hard. Right.

I remember saying yes to planting extraras when I was

a very young young adult. I just graduated, just graduated,

and I was in the midst of still looking for

a job before I joined as a lecturer. And you know,

I saw my peers going on with different things in life,

you know, because doing ministry takes a lot of your time,

your effort, loving people when it is hard, right, And

I was so young to even do all of those.

But I just remember that I just wanted to do

it for him. Yeah, but I have the skills or

the talents. No, I couldn't even stand in the front

and speak for those of you who know me from

those days, right. But who am I today is only

because of the waging that God has done in my life,

the molding, the different things that have gone through, and

I can boldly speak about the end result of the

vessel today because of how God has brought me.

True.

Yeah, I'm a living testimony for him, and I believe

all of you are as well. Right, all of you

are as well if you can just allow God to

wage and allow God to work in our hearts. Yeah,

and as you do that, what's the next thing that

God does? The trimming happens. Right now, even he sees that, Okay,

my child is he has softened its hard, he's humble.

He has come to a place of sining. Is you know,

it's able to just surrender.

Right.

The thought technique that the potter has is the trimming

and the decorating of the pottery. Right, we all buy

something a vessel or it's its placed in the front

because it's pretty, or there's a certain function to it. Yeah.

So once the potter has done that, that that that

dirty work with the mud and forming it, you'll actually

try to do some art on it. Right, He does

some carving, you know, some some patterns to it. And

I believe that how this relates to us is the

way we build our life, because the trimming can happen

with the way we are surrounded with the people around us,

the values that we build in our lives.

Yeah.

And that's why when I even speak to my students

or any young people, I always tell them the people

that you surround with is so important because they make

who you are, because they are constantly speaking into your life.

They could be the ones who may be making you

feel like you are not good enough or it's never enough,

or they could be the ones who are saying that, hey,

you are enough in the eyes of God. Yeah, You're found.

Your identity is found in the eyes of God. And

I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to grow

in the church from a young age, being surrounded with

people of the same faith. Okay, and at the same

time having friends out there who knows the importance of values,

the importance of just doing what is right. Yeah, And

this is how you build yourself as a person, the

principles that you hold on to. Right. Sometimes, when I

think of the choices and the kind of distractions that

we have in the world, it's watered down, don't you

think so? There are things are watered down to a

point that sometimes people don't know who they are. We

are so quick to follow people's opinions, voices, decisions, to

the point sometimes even it comes to a place where

parents don't want to choose the gender of your children.

This is what's happening around the world. Yeah, what is

going on, and as Christians, we shouldn't be surprised because

that is how it is. It's a fallen world. But

what we've got to do is to guard our hearts,

God our minds to do what is right. And to

do what is right is to ask God to search

our hearts right, to always be in check. And just

because we are believers, yeah, it doesn't mean that we

are out of distractions. We are heavy have a shield.

Of course, we have shield God's God's protection is on us.

But it doesn't mean that we cannot fall on these temptations.

We cannot fall on these distractions that are there. And

that is why it's so important for us to always

have our hearts check, to always have the right people

to speak with, okay, And that is why we believe

in discipleship church. We believe in doing life together right,

encouraging a brother or sister in Christ and saying that hey,

if you're having it hard, let me journey with you,

let me pray with you. You are not alone. In

this Yeah, and that is when the trimming and the

molding happens, and when you've become that beautiful pot that

God has created you to be. Do you think it

ends there? What do you think is the last step?

Anyone can guess. Anyone's then the pot. But sorry, showcase, showcase, Okay,

before you showcase the burnings. I say that the burning wow,

because you would think that I'm a pretty pot now right,

I've been trimmed, i am been carved, and I ready

for to be short showcased like what Truman said. Well,

the last step is actually to refine, right, to refine

the clay, and the only way to make it firm

is to put it through the fire. Yeah, to put

it through the fire. In Isaiah forty eight, verse ten,

I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather,

I've refined you in the furnace of suffering. Yeah. And

of course none of us want to go through that, Okay,

but that's just how we are built stronger. Yeah, you

may go through the hardest thing in life, but let

me tell you this, you can still come out of

the fire. You know why, God, Potter, the potter will

take you out the Potter is the want to put you

in and he will take you out. And it's not

a God who is trying to make things hard for you,

but he knows because there's going to be even harder days.

There's a lot more days in your life. And therefore

he had it put you through it so that you

can come out firm, stronger, fulfilling the fire function he

created you to be. And therefore you're ready. Yeah, you're ready,

And that is what he does first spitter one seven,

so that the proof of your faith being more precious

than goal, which is perishable, even though tested by fire,

may be found to result in praise and glory and

honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. So if you

tell someone to praise God and thank God and smile

and smile and good days, I'm sure it's not difficult.

We can all do that. But could we still praise

God when we're in the fire. So that's the truth testing, right,

I'm sure any relationship goes through that. You know when

you have the arguments and you know all the fight,

But yet if you can still come out of it

forgive and move on, well, that builds your faith. That

builds your your relationship together, your trust together. Right, and

the same thing is to be this. Okay, As we

read the word of God here, it tells us that

that is the proof of your faith, that though you've

gone through all that, you can still say, my God

is the same. He is faithful, he answered, or he

did not answer, whether it turned out my way or

another way, I can still hold on to my faith.

Can we all do that? Right? Just something for us

to think about, because it's easy to lose faith when

hard times comes in. Yeah, but would it be worth it?

Because what else do we have to hold on to then,

if it's not God? Yeah, So that is how he

molds us, right, He puts us to the fire for

the final step, and then we're out and ready, right,

and then we become all this the next light. We

come in all forms, right, different forms, different sizes. He's masterpiece,

remember that, right, Yeah, his masterpiece. But let's not just

fix our eyes on the end product. We always want

things to be quick. We want things to be I

want the final beautiful part of it. But to get

to the beautiful part, you've got to go through every

other step. Right. You can ask any artists. There's always

the sketching, and we have terror heils the artists. Right.

I'm sure there were times where you drew something and

then you get to erase it. It didn't look nice,

you know, until it came to that. Wow, it's so beautiful,

right because of the effort and the time that you

put in. And the same thing is what God is

doing with us. He's working and you say, Okay, this

person is still not learning. I've got to put them

through another challenge, you know, Okay, now they got it.

Now they are ready to be showcased. Yeah, in the

different forms, our different talents, different abil and it's just

a beautiful thing to see how God created us in

such a way so that we can be so fitted

for a place, whether it's in your family you're meant

to be there, whether you're meant to be in a church,

whether you're meant to be in a community, and you

are playing that function right, But if you're not playing

the function, then again it's good to ask, right, what

as I created for them? If I was a flower pot?

Am I a flower pot? Right? If I'm a jar?

Am I doing the job of a jar right? Pouring

water and filling the tursts of others. So, if I

can ask all of us this morning, are we fulfilling

the job of how God created us to be his masterpiece? Yeah?

Each of us have a different calling, each of us

have a different position in this life. And let's do

that to the fullest. Yeah. Whether it's in the church,

whether it's out there in your marketplace, whether it's in

your families, in the midst of children, midst of adults,

whatever it is, as long as we're doing something to

fulfill that purpose. Because the moment someone loses their purpose,

there's no meaning to life. Right, And I pray that

we'll never come to that place of saying, what's the point?

Because there is a point. God created you. I'm sure

there's a reason why He went all the way to

the cross. He gave his one and only son for us,

for us, remember, for us. That is how precious we

are in the eyes of God. Amen. Yeah. And after

all this whole process, after everything is there, we are created. Yeah. Now,

what happens if the clay becomes hardened. Sometimes that happens, right,

It becomes so hardened where you're not playing your function.

You know, you're not a jar, You're not a pot,

You're not just doing any of that. What happens, well,

then what the Potter has to do is that he

has to crush it. And that's just how the process

is with Clay and Potter. Right, He crushes it and

then he soften its again until it fulfills its purpose.

So it's very important for us to fulfill the purpose

that God has created us to be. Yeah, and when

that crushing happen is because he wants to give you

a reason to why you're living. Yeah, he wants to

allow you to leave a fulfilled life. Let us be

a generation that never takes things for granted. Yeah, every

day we are living is a gift. Many people don't

wake up with that gift. But we are alive. And

so we've got to leave our lives like we are alive,

not just walking zonebase around. Right, We've got to be

praising God. We've got to. I mean, God, it's so

good to you. I think you've got to share, but

God to everyone who sees you. Right, what is holding

us back? If I can ask, what is holding us

back from sharing about God's love? I mean, the worst

they can do is say, what would you say? No,

I don't want to come to church, right, So why

don't we do that because that person that you're sharing

the gospel too may not be able to hear it

from anyone else, and you could be that one person

who is the channel that God is using. So let's

not walk in fear or what people would say, Am

I saying the writing because you'll never do it then?

But let's just do it anyway. Yeah, let's just do

it anyway because God lives in us and He has

created us with that purpose. Yeah, and let's not keep

those goodness to ourselves, but to share the goodness to

artists as well. So if you're seated here and you

see the seat beside you is empty, then you know

what to do this week. You're all going back for

Chinese New Year. Besides enjoying all the good cookies and food,

why don't you share the gospel as well to your

friends when you meet them, right when you're meeting your family,

Just share your stories. No harm doing that. No one

is telling you to preach the Bible, but just share

about how God has been good in my life. And

I'm sure all of you have those stories. If you

forgot those stories, take time to write it down. And

I think for most of you, I know your stories

as well. If you forgot it, let me remind you, okay,

because God has been so good in each one of

your lives, and let's not just keep it to us,

but to tell it to the world proudly of who

God is.

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